Proxmox7 (amd) macOS guest with virtualisation support

[jakpak]

Hello People,

I am rebuilding a past setup on Proxmo7 and need virtualization support on a macOS (BigSur) guest. The host is running an AMD Threadripper. The macOS VM runs fine as of this guide https://manjaro.site/install-macos-big-sur-11-on-proxmox-6-3/, but i cann't get virtualisation to work. I tried adding the

+vmx

arg and some combinations of

cpu: host

. The hosts nested support is setup to the proxmox documentation.

But if i try to start the Docker.app or create a virtualbox driver machine

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default

i am getting the error "This computer doesn't have VT-X/AMD-v enabled. Enabling it in the BIOS is mandatory". "sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features" also shows me that the feature is not present.

I someone has an idea or can point me to something i would be really glad.

Thanks in advance...

 

[dcsapak]

hi,

first i am not sure if virtualbox nested inside kvm will work at all... but for amd i guess you need the 'svm' flag not 'vmx' (thats for intel)

 

[nurqomari]

@jakpak hi are you successful with any other virtualization in macOS host? ie VMWare, Parallels, Docker, Android Studio, etc
because I'm going to use amd for my next Proxmox setup, and use macOS guest to develop with flutter.

 

[mirthrandir]

@nurqomari: Unfortunately, the macOS virtualization framework doesn't work on AMD, so you can't run the Android simulator on an AMD macOS VM. You can connect to a physical Android device. You can also run Android in the cloud or run an older version of Android x86 in a Proxmox VM.

Hmm... I wonder if you could run the system images download by Android Studio in a Proxmox VM.

BTW, a good source of information on installing macOS guests on Proxmox is Nicholas Sherlock's blog.